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In June 2014, TCSW published a set of additional capability statements for social workers involved in fostering and adoption to support high professional standards and best practice in fostering and adoption. Read the new guidance here in prose and table formats.

Whether you are a qualified social worker, a student, academic or employer, you need to know about the PCF - find out more on the following pages:

Louise Casey's powerful and uncompromising report about child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Rotherham has now been published. Wherever we are located on the social work landscape, we have a professional responsibility to reflect carefully on her findings and analyse carefully the issues which have surfaced.